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Rational Criticism, Ideological Sustainability and Intellectual Leadership in the Digital Public Sphere

Mahlouly, Dounia

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This review postulates that today's digital environments unveil an era of connectivity, in which digital communication devices exercise a general influence on social interactions and public deliberation. From this perspective, it argues that connective practices are likely to affect two main components of the normative public sphere, namely rational criticism and ideological sustainability. Drawing on the case of the 2011 Arab revolutions, in which social media proved to have a strategic function, this paper illustrates the ideological heterogeneity of social networks. Additionally, this article considers how issues of rational criticism and ideological sustainability could be improved by regulating online interactions and proposes that the digital divide could act as a natural process of regulation for today's connective and transnational public sphere.

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Mahlouly, D. (2014). Rational Criticism, Ideological Sustainability and Intellectual Leadership in the Digital Public Sphere. International journal of e-politics, 5(1), 78-90. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijep.2014010105

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 29, 2013
Publication Date Jan 31, 2014
Deposit Date Jun 3, 2019
Publicly Available Date Jun 3, 2019
Journal International Journal of E-Politics
Print ISSN 1947-9131
Electronic ISSN 1947-914X
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 5
Issue 1
Pages 78-90
DOI https://doi.org/10.4018/ijep.2014010105
Keywords Arab Spring, Connectivity, Cyber-Activism, Digital Divide, e-Democracy, Ideological
Sustainability, Intellectual Leadership,Public Sphere, Rational Criticism

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